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This rule will ultimately end my interest in foreign football all together. Purely because it’s rigged to ensure that no one can ever compete with the biggest Clubs. The occasional fluke will happen during a freak season, but that’s it. 

Worrying that the top 6 can ‘cherry pick’ important straff from us like this. I might be naive, but I really believed we had more pulling power than this. 

18 minutes ago, Froggy said:

 

Erm... 

 

Nicky Butt? 

 

Alan Smith?? 

 

Gabriel Obertan??? 

What a f’ing wankfeast this is in the media. Really pathetic. 
Also, if true; Dan Ashworth - fuck off. 
Rinse Manure for compensation and send DA on gardering leave for a year. 
Manure has never done us any favors. 

Love BrunoPlease stay…. Forever!

Embarrassing result

Fucking Luton? What the hell is going on? Just looked at the score. Jesus…

Their initial intention with FFP I’m sure was noble. But it will never work as intended. Never. It will backfire immensely and utimately hurt the interest in EPL and football. 
It only serves to protect the biggest clubs, and if that’s the way they want it, they should support the creation of a Super League rather than fight it. 

Looking forward to LiVARpool (hopefully) disappearing after the summer. 

So, it’s now a thing that if you «only have 6 months left of your contract» you can leave for free? Does it work the other way too. You’re surplus so we can release you for free…?

FFP is such a shambolic thing. 

3 minutes ago, sushimonster85 said:

I do think Sky will start to get restless if there are further Jan windows like this. Viewing figures/general engagement will be way down. 

 

Between commercial partners, and FFP starting to bite even for top 6 sides (Man U and Chelsea both apparently limited this window) I can see a re-jig of the rules in the next couple years. I mean, even just adjusting the losses allowed to account for inflation would be a start. It hasn't changed since it was implemented.

TL;DR Scrap FFP. 

Please remember, FFP works just as intended. If it didn’t they would reinforce it - which they will as soon as the ‘Elite’ feels threatened again. 

Just now, Wullie said:

Liverpool brought on Jota, Gakpo, Gravenberch and Mac Allister. Harvey Elliott didn't get on. They have injuries too, Matip, Robertson, Tsimikas, Thiago. Both their quality left backs are fucked and they still have Joe Gomez to play there.

 

That's what rotation is meant to look like when you play a CL campaign, two elite XIs plus cover even for them. We're squabbling over whether Lewis Hall and Matt Ritchie should have been given an extra 20 minutes, it's deckchairs on the Titanic stuff.

 

The problem for any club that qualifies out of the blue like we did is that all the other clubs in it, especially in England, have built CL capable squads up over a decade. FFP stops us doing that in one go or even several.

And that my friend is why modern football is fucked up and rigged so that the big clubs will remain big for eternity. 

Soooooo… I’m intrigued to know what we have «learned» from this experience….

Too early to consider sacking him, but I’m afraid his intense style both have been ‘found out’, and has led to so many injuries and fatigue in the squad. 

We are clearly short in numbers to compete on ‘all fronts’, but we also can’t go out spending too much because of the ridiculous FFP rules. 
 

8? Played 9,5….

Bruno needs ro calm down or get subbed. 

Thought he’d finally dropped, but he’s unfortunately still around. Dang…

Haaland x2????

Haaland????

Howe’s unwillingness to make subs cost us the three points imo. They looked dead tired. 

What’s the point having a bench with decent players if you’re not going to use them?

3 minutes ago, tgarve said:

I hope trippier scores a last minute winner and you can all bow your heads in shame

Howe, is that you?

Another shit game. 

1 hour ago, Gawalls said:

It only looks the worse business in the clubs history because we’re now buying the most expensive players in the clubs history, there’s bigger risks involved.

Bigger risk for what? Gambling bans are certainly not everyday-life. Thank God for that.